. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . o do not seem to have used the pipe in pre-tradingdays, but among the interior Salish tribes there is nodoubt that tobacco was early used. There are twodistinct forms of pipes, one of which resembles anordinary pipe and is clearly borrowed from the other is distinctly native and resembles nothingso much as a huge cigar=hoIder. Pipes of this lattershape are now rare, being found only in ancient tobacco used seems to have been a real tobacco,some species of this plant being native to the habitat of
. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . o do not seem to have used the pipe in pre-tradingdays, but among the interior Salish tribes there is nodoubt that tobacco was early used. There are twodistinct forms of pipes, one of which resembles anordinary pipe and is clearly borrowed from the other is distinctly native and resembles nothingso much as a huge cigar=hoIder. Pipes of this lattershape are now rare, being found only in ancient tobacco used seems to have been a real tobacco,some species of this plant being native to the habitat of 142 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA the Okanagons. In other centres, where the tobaccoplant was not found, other vegetable substances wereutilised, the commonest of which was the bark of certainwillows. Even now some of the old Indians mix thiswith the tobaccos which they obtain from the tradingposts or stores, preferring this mixture to the puretobacco. The pipe was apparently used in all their publicceremonies, but exactly what its significance was hasnot been gathered. Plate 27.
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